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The History of KFF
Former Keswick Film Club Chairman, Rod Evans, takes you on a journey through the past
2001 Festival

Blood Simple
John Getz, Frances McDormand, Dan Hedaya, M Emmet Walsh. A modern film noir in which greed...
2010 - 2016
17th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2016 Festival

17th Keswick Film Festival
This year our themes covered jazz, memory and we celebrated female filmmakers with three directors joining us for Q&As.
Audience Award

Still Mine
The highest rated film was the documentary My Love Don't Cross That River and the highest non-documentary was Still Mine.
16th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2015 Festival

16th Keswick Film Festival
Take a look back as we celebrated Dogme, told you to Get On Yer Bike and welcomed the makers of the Cumbrian-based film Radiator, plus much more...
Audience Award

Come As You Are
The audience rated Come As You Are the highest but there was also lots of love for One Crazy Ride, Radiator and The Dark Horse.
15th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2014 Festival

15th Keswick Film Festival
We welcomed Dame Janet Suzman to Keswick to show her new film and look back at her career. Plus much more...
Audience Award

Lad: A Yorkshire Story
Lad: A Yorkshire Story was narrowly followed by The Crash Reel, The Rocket and 5 Broken Cameras.
14th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2013 Festival

14th Keswick Film Festival
We welcomed John Hurt back as our patron, enjoyed lots of films and much more...
Audience Award

McCullin Wins
McCullin was narrowly followed by Chasing Ice and The Wave; the Osprey Audience Award went to New Deal.
13th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2012 Festival

13th Keswick Film Festival
Unlucky for some but not KFF as some of our biggest audiences came to see John Hurt and much much more...
12th Keswick Film Festival
Revisit 2011 Festival

12th Keswick Film Festival
In 2011 we were joined by Kay Mellor and Jack Gold, celebrated Film4 and Agnès Varda and had a sing along to Frankenstein.
Audience Award

Cameraman Wins
With an audience score of 92% director Craig McCall was "seriously proud that Cameraman won the Audience Award at Keswick."
11th Keswick Film Festival
2010 Festival

11th Keswick Film Festival
In 2010 we were joined by Jan Dunn and Tony Grisoni, the Gardner sisters provided live music and Departures won the Audience Award.
Audience Awards

Departures Wins
Keswick audiences agreed that Departures was a worthy winner of the 2009 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
10th Keswick Film Festival
Audience Awards

Young@Heart Wins
The feelgood Young@Heart was the winner of the first KFF Audience Award, narrowly beating Four Minutes and Lemon Tree.